I'm not affected by this (we don't use Windows) but something that's confused me: most of the various clouds have published advisories/status page updates for t

I'm not affected by this (we don't use Windows) but something that's confused me: most of the various clouds have published advisories/status page updates for this. Are they (e.g., MS) shipping VMs in their cloud (e.g., Azure) with CrowdStrike pre-installed? In which case I think people have a right to be upset with MS, as they've chosen an apparently poor quality vendor, and the EU argument seems like a complete distraction. Or is the market of "audit checkbox checking security software" just such a monoculture that nigh every Windows VM out there was running this thing, but that it was installed by the owners of the VM (i.e., not by the cloud vendor), and now we see what happens when unfettered updates hit a monoculture? In which case, … I don't see how MS is to blame here; seems like you, the buyer of CrowdStrike, chose poorly. (And the EU thing is even more of a distraction.) (And I guess the cloud status page updates are just out of the goodness of the cloud vendors' hearts, or we don't think Windows sysadmins are competent enough to not blame their cloud, or both.)